Winter Events Programme 2005

RIISS Welcome and Reception for new students and old friends

The Unseen Universe: Science, Theology and Poetics in late 19th century Scotland and Ireland
Professor Cairns Craig, FBA, University of Aberdeen. Part of the AHRC Centre’s Language and Literature programme.

Scots in London in the 18th Century: patronage, professions and themaking of Scottish identity
Dr Stana Nenadic, University of Edinburgh. Part of the AHRC Centre’s Diaspora Programme.

The Associational Culture of the 19th Century Orange Order
Professor Donald MacRaild, Victoria University, Wellington, NZ. Part of the AHRC Centre’s Diaspora Programme.

Michael Collins: His Rise to Power
Professor Peter Hart, Canada Research Chair in Irish Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

Distance and Proximity in Service to the Empire: Ulster and New Zealandin the 20th Century
Professor Keith Jeffery, Queen’s University Belfast. Jointly hosted with the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy. Part of the AHRC Centre's Diaspora Programme.

AHRC Language & Literature Programme Symposium (by invitation only)
External speakers will include Dr Nicholas Allen (Chapel Hill); Dr Fidelma Farley (NUI, Galway); Brigid McLeer (University of London); Dr Scott Brewster (University of Central Lancashire).

Albanach Ó Dálaig, the thirteenth-century Irish poet nicknamed ‘The Scot’
Máirín Ní Dhonnchada, Professor of Old and Middle Irish and Celtic Philology, National University of Ireland, Galway. Part of the AHRC Centre’s Language and Literature programme.

Archipelagic Macbeth
Professor John Kerrigan, Head of the Faculty of English at Cambridge University. Part of the AHRC Centre’s Language and Literature programme.

Crossing Seas, Exploring Islands: Irish Immigrants in the Pacific World
Dr Malcolm Campbell, University of Auckland. Part of the AHRC Centre’s Diaspora Programme.

AHRC Diaspora Programme Symposium: Migrations and Diasporas in the EarlyModern World (by invitation only)
External speakers will include: Dr Steve Murdoch (St Andrews), Professor John MacKenzie (formerly Lancaster), Dr Craig Bailey (Kings College London), Dr Stana Nenadic (Edinburgh), Dr Colm O’Conaill (NUI, Galway).

The politics of dialect representation in Scotland and Ireland
Professor David Hewitt and Dr Barbara Fennell, School of Language and Literature, University of Aberdeen. Part of the AHRC Centre’s Language and Literature programme

Unionism and the history of twentieth century Scotland
Dr Ewen Cameron, University of Edinburgh.

In the Wake of the Hunger Strikes: Northern Irish Politics,Fiction and Drama 1981-85
Dr Michael Parker, University of Central Lancashire. Part of the AHRC Centre’s Language and Literature programme.